| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
happiest among them? As concerned her own individual existence,
she had long ago decided in the negative, and dismissed the point
as settled. A tendency to speculation, though it may keep women
quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may
be, such a hopeless task before her. As a first step, the whole
system of society is to be torn down and built up anew. Then the
very nature of the opposite sex, or its long hereditary habit,
which has become like nature, is to be essentially modified
The Scarlet Letter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: memory forever. I used the most pathetic language I could think
of and said `thou' and `thee.' `Thou' and `thee' seem so much
more romantic than `you.' Diana gave me a lock of her hair and
I'm going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck
all my life. Please see that it is buried with me, for I don't
believe I'll live very long. Perhaps when she sees me lying cold
and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has
done and will let Diana come to my funeral."
"I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long
as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.
The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: will have many friends, and will find the work
you were meant to do. But you'll write to me,
Carl? That will mean a great deal to me here."
"I'll write as long as I live," cried the boy
impetuously. "And I'll be working for you as
much as for myself, Alexandra. I want to do
something you'll like and be proud of. I'm a
fool here, but I know I can do something!" He
sat up and frowned at the red grass.
O Pioneers! |
